Quotes by David Carson

Never mistake legibility for communication.

Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word blue in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people.

Some people hate lime-green; red has all this emotional baggage. Blue seems to be overall one of the more positive colors, and a little more serious than yellow.

Im a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message thats sent before somebody begins to read, before they get the rest of the information; what is the emotional response they get to the product, to the story, to the painting - whatever it is.

For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I dont know where that came from. Because I dont have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction.

The dreaded phrase in design circles is show and tell.

Im experimenting in public. At the design grad schools, these are people sitting around in groups, putting their work on a wall, analyzing it and putting it back in a drawer. I think theres little risk in that.